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Books in Business management and accounting

Our Business, Management, and Accounting titles are essential reading for students and professionals, and cover a range of foundational and advanced topics across actuarial science, quantitative assets management and investment modelling, business venturing, business law, and human resource management, among other topics

  • Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance

    A Dynamic Model of Corporate Governance
    • 1st Edition
    • June 15, 2002
    • J. Holland
    • English
    This report describes a detailed model of the private corporate governance role of financial institutions and how this role is related to public corporate governance processes.The report begins by illustrating the private, implicit corporate governance process of financial institutions during good corporate performance. The second half of the report outlines a dynamic, five staged model of fund managers (FM) corporate governance influence.

  • Management Accounting- Information Strategy: May 2002 Exam Questions & Answers

    • 1st Edition
    • June 15, 2002
    • English
    Management Accounting - Information Strategy May 2002 Examination Questions and Answers. The answers for the third set of exams under the new syllabus have been compiled by the Examiners. They provide an invaluable source for lecturers and students. This title is also available for immediate download at http://www.businessc...

  • Environmental Cost Accounting

    An Introduction and Practical Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • June 15, 2002
    • Rupert Howes
    • English
    Environmental Cost Accounting provides an introduction to the dynamic subject of corporate environmental accounting. It outlines the business case and rationale for engaging in environmental accounting. It also illustrates how leading UK companies are already adding value and reducing risk through the use of innovative environmental accounting techniques and methodologies. The second part of the book presents an environmental accounting tool kit which focuses on external cost accounting. The methodology detailed in this section provides a tool to estimate the environmental sustainability of a company's activities and operations. The methodology presented has been developed by the sustainable development organisation Forum for the Future, a UK registered charity, with support from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

  • Report Writing in Business

    • 2nd Edition
    • June 15, 2002
    • Trevor Bentley
    • English
    Report writing is an essential part of business life and if you can effectively communicate your ideas you are likely to reap the rewards. This new edition, extensively rewritten and updated, aims to provide you with a comprehensive, clear, brief and relevant set of guidelines for writing effective reports. The key to effective report writing is to be able to communicate a message in a way that enables the reader to understand it in exactly the way it was intended. To achieve this the writer needs to be able to produce information in a clear, concise and readable way to deliver a message without the danger of ambiguity or misinterpretation. Guidance and examples are given. This book is aimed at business managers as well as students of management who need to write reports for distribution within their organisations. Reading this book will present you with the knowledge to modify your own personal report style and approach.

  • CRM

    Redefining Customer Relationship Management
    • 1st Edition
    • May 31, 2002
    • Jeffrey Peel
    • English
    In CRM, Jeffrey Peel defines Customer Relationship Management in a radical new way by putting communications at the center. In the past, CRM was mostly about the technology, not about the customer. In this book, Peel talks about a new ethos that is beginning to fundamentally change the way organizations do business. At a technology level, CRM is increasingly about conjoined best-of-breed applications delivered via portal technologies. At a business level, it is beginning to invade traditional territories occupied by brand management or customer support. Peel shows companies how to make the shift to the new paradigm.

  • Advances in Accounting

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • May 8, 2002
    • Philip M J Reckers
    • English

  • Marketing Plans

    How to prepare them, how to use them
    • 5th Edition
    • April 25, 2002
    • Malcolm McDonald
    • English
    Marketing Plans, Fifth Edition, is a practical, step-by-step guide to marketing planning. This international, bestselling textbook from one of the world's leading marketing experts has been thoroughly revised and carefully updated with the latest developments in e-marketing, CRM, and new planning practices. Designed as a total, student-friendly resource it features: key concepts, crucial terms, examples, headlines, marketing insights, case studies, and exercises. The book is established as essential reading for all serious professional marketers and students of marketing, both undergraduates and those on professional courses for CIM and CAM. Above all it provides a practical, hands-on approach for implementing every single concept included in the text.

  • Raising Entrepreneurial Capital

    • 1st Edition
    • March 25, 2002
    • John B. Vinturella + 1 more
    • English
    Raising Entrepreneurial Capital begins where entrepreneurship books leave off. This book provides a broad, high-level discussion of the financing decisions that companies must make to achieve success. With a focus on classic capital raising, the text covers the debt vs. equity decision, as well as the options available to smaller businesses. It also describes the factors that lead to rapid growth, including venture capital, IPOs, angels, incubators, and much more. Combining solid theory with practitioner's experience and insights, this book should increase student understanding of how to raise entrepreneurial capital. It explains how your company should position itself to attract private equity investment, and what steps you can take to improve your company's marketability. It includes several chapters on worldwide regional variations on forms and availability of pre-seed capital, incubators, and the business plans they create, with case-studies from Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. It also effectively differentiates between venture capital and entrepreneurial capital. This book will appeal to entrepreneurs and to students in Entrepreneurship programs, particularly entrepreneurial finance courses.

  • Research in Accounting Regulation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • January 23, 2002
    • Gary Previts
    • English

  • Making Common Sense Common Practice

    Models for Manufacturing Excellence
    • 1st Edition
    • December 17, 2001
    • Ron Moore
    • English
    Make more money in the manufacturing business - but not through cost-cutting and employee layoffs. This book clearly describes how you can turn common sense into common practice to achieve superior manufacturing performance and low-cost production.Presentin... the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a fictional company called Beta International, the book illustrates the success and failures of the world's premier manufacturers, illustrating a stable path of growth for almost any manufacturing company.Through the experience of Beta International, you'll see how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, maximize asset utilization, apply benchmarks and best practices, and improve many other aspects that ultimately raise your company's performance to the level of world-class. 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' takes a good, hard look at plant design, procurement, parts management, installation and maintenance, training and even offers a chapter on how to implement a computerized maintenance management system.In today's tough competitive markets, 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' greatly enhances your company's chance to succeed - and profit.

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